Richard Hayman, who began his profession as a harmonica player and went on to develop into the conductor of pops concerts in St. Louis and the arranger of pops live shows in Boston, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 93.
His loss of life, in a nursing home, was introduced by his daughter Suzy Hayman DeYoung.
Mr. Hayman was the St. Louis Symphony’s pops conductor from 1976 until the pops live shows have been discontinued in 2002. He was additionally the chief arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra for more than 50 years, below both Arthur Fiedler and John Williams, and carried out pops concerts in Detroit, Hartford and other cities within the United States and Canada.
Mr. Hayman was born on March 27, 1920, in Cambridge, Mass. After graduating from high school, he joined the favored multi-harmonica ensemble Borrah Minnevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.
He later moved to Hollywood and labored as an orchestrator for MGM on “Girl Loopy” and other film musicals. Within the Fifties he was in charge of artists and repertoire for Mercury Data and made a number of instrumental data as a leader.
As a conductor, Mr. Hayman was recognized for his flamboyant outfits (he favored sequined jackets); his ebullient, usually irreverent approach; and his common lack of respect for creative categories. “Music is music if it tells the correct story,” he as soon as advised The New York Times. “It doesn’t matter if it is Bach or rock.”
Along with his daughter Suzy, he's survived by his spouse of fifty three years, Maryellen; another daughter, Olivia Hayman Kidney; and four grandchildren.
Amongst Mr. Hayman’s extra unusual performances was “Starship Encounters,” a multimedia presentation at Madison Square Garden in 1978 at which he performed the American Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire included music from “Star Wars,” “2001: A House Odyssey” and different science-fiction motion pictures; three movements from Holst’s suite “The Planets”; and a dramatic studying by William Shatner from the Arthur C. Clarke novel “Childhood’s Finish,” accompanied by Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.” The music was enhanced by an elaborate mild show and other sonic and visual effects.
“With the constant pleasure, the flashing lights, I am egged on,” Mr. Hayman informed The Occasions in an interview a number of days earlier than the performance. “And in addition to, I don’t have to pay attention so laborious on conducting.”
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